What choices NOT to make in filmmaking. Really glaring incidents like the band playing a Salieri to welcome Mozart into the room (in a celebratory way, and not sardonic, judging from all the smiles and flourishes). The primadonna breaking character to smile at the end of a scene to applause, while on stage in the middle of an opera. The director had good actors to work with. The sets, costumes, soundtrack were top notch and would have already done 40%…
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Nickel Boys 2024
You have to see this for yourself. It should sweep the Oscars in my book.
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Becoming Karl Lagerfeld 2024
I’m rooting for this to sweep the next awards season. Forget BC in Eric, DB’s portrayal of Karl Lagerfeld is next level. It’s not only in the physicality or the way his closeups reveal so much of the interior - it’s in the little things too - Karl reaching out for but deciding not to eat a macaron. And all the elements make up the whole - the sets, the costumes, the cover of Aha’s Take On Me. I didn’t…
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The American 2023
Riveting. I wish I didn’t have to believe the physical violence.
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